A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan’s Justice Ministry said.

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Japan yesterday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the ...

In one of the most disturbing and widely discussed criminal cases in Japan’s history, Takahiro Shiraishi — known as the ...

Japan has carried out its first execution in nearly three years, hanging Takahiro Shiraishi, the man known as the "Twitter ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was was executed on Friday, at the Tokyo Detention House in secrecy with ...

The chilling mass murder case had gripped the nation for years and raised concerns over the use of social media.

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...